US actor and "Buddhist" Richard Gere requested Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) to contribute actively to the solution of the Tibet problem. As acting European Union advice president and most important political and economical partner of China in Europe be offered to Germany in addition a "historical opportunity", wrote Gere in a contribution for the "daily mirror" (expenditure for Monday). Merkel met and knows the Dalai Lama, the religious and lay head of the Buddhisten in Tibet, around its integrity.

Unfortunetly the article is only in german:
http://de.news.yahoo.com/11022007/286/kurzberichte-richard-gere-merkel-l-sung-tibet-problems-k-mmern.html